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@Hudjefa Thank you for your sympathy, I appreciate it. Yes I think I have or am making something meaningful out of this. And I agree, a lot of what is considered normal and obvious nowadays would've probably been considered witchcraft a few hundred years ago. So maybe the things that we consider dumb or absurd today will be common knowledge in a century or two. Or maybe even sooner, considering the pace at which we've started, for lack of better word, evolving, as of lately.

@Hudjefa Sure, I don't mind it. Mostly the question just stems from my own experience of feeling like a ghost, sometimes in a way too literal of a sense. Which sometimes makes me wonder if maybe I've died and just nobody including me has noticed.

Or any clarification on the question itself.

@Hudjefa I'm sorry, I can clarify on any point/part of my idea but I'll need to know what it is that needs to be clarified.

@Hudjefa From what I understand, the current definition of death does not concern itself with the experience/perception of the person since it is subjective, and rather relies on external, biological signs. So as far as the outside world is concerned, a person may not feel anything at all, or their experience could be 'hollow' without any actual presence observing this experience, and they will still be considered alive.

@Hudjefa Not quite. Rather I'm suggesting that perhaps being dead and alive aren't mutually exclusive concepts, or alternatively to reframe our current definition of what it means to be dead/alive, and that a person may die in the sense of losing their presence in the body and the experience and anywhere else, while the body and its experience keeps functioning as usual giving no immediate signs of this death.

@JoWehler a 'living' person might be indicating signs of death when they become unresponsive, disregarded, ignored, forgotten, start solely mirroring others's behavior without displaying any signs of 'their own' actions, when they experience identity loss/identity crisis, when they stop taking initiative and act only based on queries/requests of those around them.

@keshlam In this case there is no need to detect souls, just their absence. Or perhaps "its" absence, since many philosophies consider a soul to be a single thing common to every being and/or thing.

Could I be pointed towards what is considered mainstream physics these days? Thank you

@Ghoster Fair enough.

@Ghoster would you say that the notion that 'nothing exists beyond the horizon because we cannot observe it' would be in line with Solipsism (the philosophy that nothing beyond one's own mind and perception is certain)?

@Hokon In one of my theories, the 'horizon' is actually the beginning of the universe from which everything stems rather than where everything 'goes'. Things that you see are always in the past, and the 'further' an object is, the further in the past you see it.

@Ghoster Is regular energy also increasing, decreasing or constant?

@Ghoster Alright. Though I do wonder how that would look like in the context of universe not actually expanding but rather being consumed by a surrounding vacuum.

@Ghoster Alright, thank you, much appreciated

@Ghoster I didn't know that this is not the consensus anymore. So it is possible for energy to be permanently destroyed?

@Ghoster Are there any other theories as to why the universe is 'expanding' and large objects seem to be drifting further away from each other?

@Ghoster Oh, I see. Does that mean that space does in fact suck everything up which causes this 'expansion'?